Originally posted by Brenjen
George Washington said "beware foreign entanglements" & that's all the un has been since it's inception.
Over the last 150 years the US has demonstrated a capacity for foreign entanglements far in excess of its involvement with the UN and irrespective of Washington's warnings, so I'm not sure what your point is really.
Anyway, it strikes me how pitifully transparent this upsurge in anti-UN sentiments is, coinciding as it did with the refusal of the UNSC to endorse George and Dick's bogus Iraqi adventure back in 2003 and the resultant new-right propganda/disinfo onslaught. Seeing that the anti-war camp at the UN has largely been proven right, you detractors should be real men about it and admit that they were right and you were wrong. Yeah, fat chance, I know.
If the UN is so irrelevant, why did Bush, Powell et al frame a large part of their argument for attacking Iraq in terms of non-compliance with UN resolutions? Anyone?
If the UN is so irrelevant, why did Bush appeal for UN assistance in the Iraq reconstruction effort? Answer?
If the UN is so irrelevant, then why hasn't the US quit already? Because being in it allows you to stop it actually acomplishing anything contrary to your own interests, while simultaeneously providing a straw man for far-right talking heads and the mouth-breathers that parrot them to rail against.
